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Gulf boats having trouble finding any oil: US official

Larrry

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Gulf boats having trouble finding any oil: US official
Wed Jul 21, 2010

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Some 750 boats drafted in to scoop up oil from the Gulf of Mexico are having "trouble" finding any crude in the sea, a top US official said Wednesday, almost a week after a busted well was capped.

"We are starting to have trouble finding oil," US pointman [sic] Admiral Thad Allen, who is in charge of handling the government’s response, told reporters.

The boats, which have been drafted in to skim oil off the surface of the Gulf, are "really having to search for the oil in some cases" around the area of the capped well, he added.

According to official US government figures, more than 270,000 barrels of oil (11.3 million gallons) have been burned in controlled operations since the start of the spill in April.

That is more than all the crude that spilled into the seas off Alaska in the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989…

Allen said some of the boats used in the skimming operations were being brought ashore for repairs, as attention turned more towards cleaning up the oil that has already washed ashore along five Gulf coasts…

Have you noticed that the estimates of how much oil has been spilled range between 94 and 184 million gallons? Isn’t that quite a wide spread?

Meanwhile, we have this surprising effort at putting the BP spill into perspective – even at the high end of the estimates, from CNBC:



What Does 184 Million Gallons of Oil Look Like?
If The Gulf Was A Football Stadium…

If the Gulf of Mexico – the 7th largest body of water in the world, containing approximately 660 quadrillion gallons of water (that’s 660 with 15 zeros) – was represented by Cowboys Stadium in Dallas – the largest domed stadium in the world – how would the spill stack up?

In this example, the amount of oil spilled – if the Gulf of Mexico was the size of Cowboys Stadium – would be about the size of a 24 ounce can of beer.

Cowboys stadium has an internal volume of approximately 104 million cubic feet, compared to the just over 50 cubic inches of volume in a 24-ounce can.

Just like the can, the spilled oil represents only .00000002788% of the liquid volume present in the Gulf of Mexico, although as the oil is dispersed, the amount of water affected becomes substantially greater.

No wonder it is hard to find.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/gulf-boats-having-trouble-finding-any-oil
 

Tam

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Yesterday they were interviewing some of the guys skimming in the gulf and the cameraman scanned the water for evidence of oil and tar balls, you couldn't see anything but fish swimming around the skimmer.
 

hypocritexposer

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Most of it would have reached shore by now. They would have found it in the water immediately following the blowout.

too bad they weren't looking for it then, it would have been easier to clean up.
 

Tam

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hypocritexposer said:
Most of it would have reached shore by now. They would have found it in the water immediately following the blowout.

too bad they weren't looking for it then, it would have been easier to clean up.

Obama is granting a moritorium on off shore drilling to protect the environment from an Oil industry that employes thousands but where was his concern with protecting the environment when he was protecting UNION JOBS by not allowing foreign ships into help with the clean up in the most important time frame of the disaster?
 

hypocritexposer

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Tam said:
hypocritexposer said:
Most of it would have reached shore by now. They would have found it in the water immediately following the blowout.

too bad they weren't looking for it then, it would have been easier to clean up.

Obama is granting a moritorium on off shore drilling to protect the environment from an Oil industry that employes thousands but where was his concern with protecting the environment when he was protecting UNION JOBS by not allowing foreign ships into help with the clean up in the most important time frame of the disaster?

The heck with foreign ships, they had their own that "might be needed in other parts of the country" that they did not utilize.
 

Larrry

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This just gores to show that if obama had been on the ball we could have saved many jobs in the tourist and fishing industry, not to mention that the drilling rigs would be running. Instead everything is at a standstill, including the economy
 

hypocritexposer

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Don't forget that the dispersant they are using makes the oil sink somewhat, so they would have trouble seeing it on the surface.

In my opinion this is another blunder. Wouldn't it be better to have it float to the surface, so you can clean it up, instead of just hiding it?
 
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Anonymous

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I don't think he wanted it cleaned up. As crazy as it may sound, I think this administration would have liked it had this spill been worse. He is still trying to put a ban on drilling eventhough his prior attempt has been shot down. Its no secret the man has a hatred of fossil fuels. He has stated that. With oil destroying the gulf he can get people who otherwise had no opinion to now back him in his efforts to do away with one aspect of the fossil fuel industry. With all of the people who depend on the offshore drilling industry out of work he would have something else he seems to want. That being more people being dependent on the government. If that were to happen then he will be better able to sell his BIG government ideas. This is all just my opnion, but I think had his agenda not been standing in the way, the oil spill would not have turned into as big of a catastrophy as it has.
 

Tam

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BAR BAR 2 said:
I don't think he wanted it cleaned up. As crazy as it may sound, I think this administration would have liked it had this spill been worse. He is still trying to put a ban on drilling eventhough his prior attempt has been shot down. Its no secret the man has a hatred of fossil fuels. He has stated that. With oil destroying the gulf he can get people who otherwise had no opinion to now back him in his efforts to do away with one aspect of the fossil fuel industry. With all of the people who depend on the offshore drilling industry out of work he would have something else he seems to want. That being more people being dependent on the government. If that were to happen then he will be better able to sell his BIG government ideas. This is all just my opnion, but I think had his agenda not been standing in the way, the oil spill would not have turned into as big of a catastrophy as it has.

:agree: NEVER WASTE A CRISIS is the mind set of this Administration and they are making the most of everyone that comes their way. :mad:
 

Mike

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Even worse than the oil spill is Buckwheat putting down the moratorium on Gulf drilling. If anyone has been to south Louisiana lately.............OIL & FISHING is the life blood of the area.

That purple lipped MF needs to go sooner than later. He's in the process of ruining life in the U.S. as we once knew it.
 

jcummins

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Mike said:
Even worse than the oil spill is Buckwheat putting down the moratorium on Gulf drilling. If anyone has been to south Louisiana lately.............OIL & FISHING is the life blood of the area.

That purple lipped MF needs to go sooner than later. He's in the process of ruining life in the U.S. as we once knew it.

I'm think that was his goal all along. He CAN'T pull his race out of the gutter, so he tears down everybody else to their level.
 
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